My (well, 'our' really, since Rafe provided both review machines and all the direct bandwidth!) Smartphones Show 39 is now online, with hands-on video reviews of the Nokia 6120 Classic (the 'smallest smartphone in the world'😉 and the brand new Sony Ericsson P1i. Here's the direct MP4 link, the YouTube link and the RSS feed if you decide you like the show etc.
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I'm beginning to think the 6120 is the best smartphone Nokia has done in years:
It's the smallest smartphone , it's the lightest smartphone, it's the cheapest smartphone, it's got 3.5G HSDPA, the interface is fast and very stable (it didn't crash at all when I used it), there's quadband GSM and dualband 3G, the camera is decent and has a flash, the camcorder is pretty good too and includes an editor, the screen is high quality... the list goes on and on.
It's not perfect, like Steve says the keypad has some very oddly placed buttons at the top, which takes getting used to. Also, the buttons in general are very small so big fingered people will have problems, and the QVGA screen is physically quite small so you have to have good eyesight.
But I've been playing with an N95 for just over a week now, and it makes me miss the 6120. The N95 does funny things occasionally, and has crashed several times. Yes, the N95 has lots of amazing extra hardware features (5mp camera, VGA camcorder, built-in GPS, 3D graphics hardware and TV Out) and if you want cutting edge phone features the N95 is totally unbeatable, but for everyday life the 6120 felt smoother to use and easier to carry.
IMHO the 6120 deserves to become the 3310 of the smartphone world, something ordinary people buy by the bucketload mainly because they want to use it in real life rather than show it off to their mates.
1. How much free ram does it have after boot up?
2. What is the battery life like?
Thanks for the show, Steve.
Xerxes